While 14% of queer female characters were killed internationally in 2016, by 2018 that number had dropped to only 3% (although still 8.6% in the US). But in some ways, the focus on Bury Your Gays was an identification of a symptom without recognizing the underlying illness: the lesbian unhappy ending problem. Per Autostraddle’s infographic, only 8% of queer female characters on US shows end well.
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It’s no secret that we here at WhatAboutDat love us some Spanish language TV. From Chile to Mexico, Argentina to Spain, if it’s got queer women, we’re there with popcorn. One of our top picks right now—in Spanish or otherwise—is the queer storyline on “Acacias 38,” a Spanish soap opera. “Maitino,” the portmanteau for Maite Zaldúa (YlePHOTnia Baglietto) and Camino Pasamar (Aria Bedmar), tells the story of an artist and her young student falling in love in 1910s Spain.
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